Mothers and children
Mothers, children and the Madonna and Child. 148 works, grouped by the museums' own subject tags and titles. Paintings first, then in date order.
148works
40average lightness (0–100)
16average colourfulness
1100–1921dates
Combined colour mix
Black 25% · Brown 25% · Grey 18% · Gold & ochre 16% · Green 6%
Artists here: Mary Cassatt (7), Paul Gauguin (4), Martin Schongauer (3), Albrecht Dürer (2), Camille Pissarro (2), Vincent van Gogh (2), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1), Peter Paul Rubens (1), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1), Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1), Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (1), Georges Seurat (1)
Virgin and Child
Tuscan, c. 1270
Diptych of the Virgin and Child Enthroned and the Crucifixion
Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1280
Madonna and Child
Duccio di Buoninsegna, ca. 1290–1300
Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Scenes from the Life of Christ
Venetian, c. 1320
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, and Dominic and a Dominican Supplicant
Ugolino di Nerio, c. 1330
Madonna and Child with Five Angels
Giovanni Baronzio, c. 1335
Madonna of Humility
Bolognese, 1375–1400
Virgin and Child
Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, 1390–1400
The Crucifixion
Taddeo di Bartolo, 1401–04
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Domenico di Bartolo, c. 1430
Virgin and Child
Central Italian, c. 1450
Holy Family
German, c. 1450
Madonna and Child
Domenico Veneziano, c. 1445/1450
Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino of Siena, and Angels
Sano di Pietro, c. 1455
Virgin and Child
Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1460
Virgin and Child
Lippi-Pesellino Imitator, c. 1465
Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome, Saint Bernardino, and Angels
Sano di Pietro, c. 1460/1470
Virgin and Child with Two Angels
Francesco Botticini, c. 1470
Madonna and Child
Marco Zoppo, c. 1467/1468
Madonna and Child
Unknown artist, c. 1470/1480
Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Phoebus
Northern Italian, 1475–1500
Virgin and Child with an Angel
Sandro Botticelli, 1475–85
Madonna and Child
Antonello da Messina, c. 1475
Virgin and Child
Hans Memling, c. 1485
Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi, ca. 1483–84
Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels
Colyn de Coter, c. 1490
Virgin and Child with Two Angels
Sandro Botticelli, 1485–95
Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini, late 1480s
Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Virgin and Child
French, c. 1495
Virgin and Child
Ercole de' Roberti, 1490–96
Madonna and Child with Saints
Unknown artist, c. 1490/1500
Madonna and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Sigismund
Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, c. 1490/1495
Icon with the Virgin and Child
Cretan, c. 1500
Madonna and Child [obverse]
Albrecht Dürer, c. 1496/1499
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael, ca. 1504
Virgin and Child
After Giovanni Bellini, 16th century or later
The Nativity
Perugino, 1500–05
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint Cecilia, and Angels
Piero di Cosimo, c. 1505
Madonna and Child
Pietro Perugino, c. 1500
The Holy Family with Four Saints and a Female Donor
Antonio Rimpatta, c. 1510
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels Holding a Crown
Ansano Ciampanti, c. 1510
Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints
German, c. 1510
The Nativity
Master of the Historia Friderici et Maximiliani, 1507–10
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, Saint Gereon, and a Donor
Bartel Bruyn, the elder, c. 1520
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Antonio da Correggio, c. 1515
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John
Unknown artist, c. 1510
Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels
Luca Signorelli, mid or late 1510s
Virgin and Child
Jan Gossart, c. 1520
Virgin and Child
Workshop of Adriaen Isenbrant, c. 1520
Virgin and Child Enthroned
Girolamo da Santacroce, 1516
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer, probably 1519
Holy Family
Workshop of Joos van Cleve, c. 1525
Virgin and Child
Circle of Adriaen Isenbrant, c. 1530
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Circle of Agnolo Bronzino, c. 1530
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Christ Child
Girolamo da Carpi, c. 1535
Madonna and Child
Jan Gossaert, c. 1532
Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
Jacopino del Conte, 1535–40
Madonna and Child
Lucas Cranach the Elder, probably c. 1535 or after
The guard restores the son who falls at his mother’s feet, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night
Unknown artist, c. 1560
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Jacopo Bassano, 1560–65
Venus and Cupid
Luca Cambiaso, c. 1570
Doge Alvise Mocenigo and Family before the Madonna and Child
Jacopo Tintoretto, c. 1575
Virgin and Child Adored by Saint Francis
Francesco Albani, c. 1606
Virgin and Child with Angels
Giulio Cesare Procaccini, c. 1610
The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1615
Cupid Chastised
Bartolomeo Manfredi, 1613
Mother and Child
Mughal, c. 1625
Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Jacques Blanchard, c. 1628
Madonna and Child
Simon Vouet, 1633
The Flight into Egypt
Abraham van Diepenbeeck, c. 1650
The Adoration of the Magi
Pietro della Vecchia, c. 1650
Peasant Family at a Well
The Master of the Children's Caps, 1650/60
The Oude Kerk, Delft
Cornelis de Man, c. 1665
Lady Playing with a Dog
Eglon van der Neer, c. 1670
Virgin and Child
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1670s
La Bonne Aventure (The Fortune Teller)
After Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, Date unknown
Holy Family with the Infant St. John
Francesco Trevisani, c. 1700
Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose
Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1705
The Presentation in the Temple
Stefano Pozzi, Date unknown
A Mother Feeding her Child (The Happy Mother)
Willem van Mieris, 1707
Appenine Landscape
François Lemoyne, c. 1730
Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1730–35
Bacchic Revels
Johann Georg Platzer, c. 1740
Allegory of Charity
Francesco de Mura, c. 1743–44
Pastoral Scene
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1740
Madonna and Child Appearing to Saint Louis Gonzaga
Veronica Stern, c. 1750
Thomas Lister and Family at Gisburne Park
Arthur Devis, 1740–41
John Thomlinson and His Family
Arthur Devis, 1745
Sir John Shaw and his Family in the Park at Eltham Lodge, Kent
Arthur Devis, 1761
Mrs. Hugh Morgan and Her Daughter
Angelica Kauffmann, c. 1771
The Circumcision
Stefano Pozzi, c. 1762
Trepanning a Recruit
George Morland, c. 1790
The Birth of Bacchus
British School, c. 1790
Madame de Pastoret and Her Son
Jacques-Louis David, 1791–92
Mother and Two Children with Still Life
Adriaan de Lelie, 1810
The Proud Mother
Unknown artist, c. 1810
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